The loss of the child his pregnant mother was carrying makes her assassination a double murder, said the son, one of Negar's 10 surviving children along with her husband. Considering her previous ...

Abdul Haleem Baloch is among thousands of drivers who eke out a dangerous living illegally smuggling fuel from southeastern Iran into southwestern Pakistan. But the closure of all border crossings ...

In Loya Paktia or Greater Paktia, which includes the provinces of Paktia, Paktika, and Khost, most of the region’s predominant Pashtun residents maintain that they trust the local tribal leaders ...

ASADABAD, Afghanistan -- Every day brings a new challenge of survival for Saima, an Afghan widow in her 30s. She struggles to keep her four children warm and fed in the bitter cold that has descended ...

Major Afghan cities have been largely spared from the deadly militant attacks that once struck them regularly. The Taliban agreed to stop bombing urban centers under a landmark peace deal signed with ...

A fact-finding team for the Afghan parliament has alleged that a construction project at the country’s embassy in Washington was rife with corruption. The parliamentary probe was launched after an ...

While the incident and the Taliban’s creeping reemergence have not made headlines in the Pakistani media, locals are alarmed. Lower Dir is the sixth of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s 35 districts where the TTP ...

A 2016 report from the ICC alleged that there was a reasonable basis to believe U.S. military personnel and CIA operatives "committed acts of torture, cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity, ...

Since the rise of the Arab Spring in 2010, social movements have taken off around the world. In response, there has been a wealth of scholarly works published in an attempt to dissect the genesis, ...

The Afghan government and Taliban negotiators are nearing a compromise on a key sticking point that has stalled peace talks in Doha, a senior Afghan official said on September 30. Talks started in the ...

Beijing has also made moves to extend CPEC to Afghanistan, with experts saying China is looking to stabilize the country and improve its political and economic links to the country as U.S. troops look ...

"I think we need special ops capacity to coordinate with our allies," Biden told the newspaper, adding that he envisioned 1,500 to 2,000 troops as the maximum number. He did not list the specific ...